epub |eng | 2011-01-31 | Author:Niall Ferguson [Ferguson, Niall]

However, when French troops were marching into Belgium to impose terms on the Dutch the following November, it was James’s turn to think twice when the Belgian minister approached him ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Paul M. Barrett

Some civilian shooting experts dissented, at least to an extent, from the majority’s unmitigated admiration for the Glock. “The gun factory ads cry, ‘Glock Perfection,’ ” Massad Ayoob wrote in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:Jeff Ryan

THE U.S. SHORES ENDED UP BEING A TENSE PLACE TO BE IN 1993. Yamauchi was tired of seeing declining profits from the American division, which had let Sega build up ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-11 | Author:Levy, Steven [Levy, Steven]

PART FIVE OUTSIDE THE BOX The Google Phone Company and the Google TV Company 1 “They already hate us—what’s the downside?” You might say that the seeds of the Google ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Ken Auletta

CHAPTER ELEVEN Google Enters Adolescence (2007-2008) For all its democratic ethos, its belief in “the wisdom of crowds,” at Google the engineer is king, held above the crowd. The vaunted ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-04-14 | Author:William D. Cohan

I have provided this information to you because it contradicts the disclosure made to MWRA by Merrill Lynch that its contractual relationship with Lazard Freres & Co. "was not in ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-11-01 | Author:Taylor Clark

A Tale of Two Cities So let’s say your petition has failed, the protests you organized weren’t strident enough, and the carefully constructed leaflets you sent out — perhaps featuring ...

mobi |eng | 2003-03-04 | Author:John Micklethwait; Adrian Wooldridge

6 THE Triumph OF MANAGERIAL CAPITALISM 1913–1975 By the outbreak of the First World War, the big company had become a defining institution in American society: the motor of one ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:Eamon Javers

Beckett Brown obtained a document showing that Whetstone took delivery of a high-speed machine from Germany that made hollow candy. “Although the equipment was shipped by Aasted-Mikroverk (Denmark), the invoice ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1999-11-11 | Author:Niall Ferguson

9.ii: “J.W.W.,” PLUCKING THE GOOSE OR BELGIUM SUPPORTED BY HER FRIENDS AND ALLIES (1831). Anselm for one feared that it would “prove a bad concern, as I do not think ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-04 | Author:Jay Elliot

Meanwhile, at Apple, Steve was like an invisible presence. Even employees who arrived after he left couldn’t help but feel his imprint. One employee, though she never met Steve, put ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Michael Moritz

Bolstered by his chat with Valentine, Markkula offered to give Jobs and Wozniak advice about how to organize Apple. They got together in the evenings and over weekends and Markkula ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-05 | Author:Howard Schultz

DON’T GET DIZZY ON WALL STREET’S EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER If I had to pick the happiest day of my business career, it would have to be June 26, 1992. That ...

mobi |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:Dean Budnick; Josh Baron

CHAPTER 7 Bigger Bangs for Your Bucks LOWRY MAYS SAID HE NEVER intended to get into the radio business. And yet by the turn of the millennium his seemingly happenchance ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-02-25 | Author:Michael Moss [Moss, Michael]

For a brief moment, when production costs were outstripping revenue, it looked like Philip Morris had made a bad bet on the Lunchables. Right after Hamish Maxwell signed off on ...